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"brooklyn1" wrote:

"Billy" wrote in message
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starrysmile wrote:

Would it be ok to use brown paper grocery bags for mulch as one would
use newspaper?
Thank you.

Don't use the ones with colored logos on them though, as you wouldn't
use colored ads from the newspaper either.


Colored inks are no more toxic than black ink and inks are no longer toxic,
haven't been for many years. Years ago inks (like paints) contained heavy
metals like lead, cadmium, etc. but no longer. Paper/cardboard with colored
printing is perfectly safe, computer printer ink is safe too... however
can't vouch for what comes from China.

http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/wastmang/msw8.pdf
Recycling Newspaper for Mulch in Home Gardens

Slick pages of any paper
product are not recommended because some inks in
these materials may still contain heavy metals. Most
inks now used have organic soybean oil or petroleum
as a base. Recycling old newspapers into a mulch
material, rather than dumping it in landfills is an
environmentally friendly practice.

Hmmm. Not as bad as I thought. I mean the colored sections of the paper,
pictures and ads. Just avoid the slick colored sections. God, I feel
like a racist but y'all know what I mean.
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html